Man, I really wish I had the time. Side-scrolling RPGs are the best. :) I miss playing Exile..._________________If you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear demonic voices. The scary part is that if you play it forwards it installs Windows. - wallace

Well, I might still attempt to dive into this after all. I may not be doing what I originally planned to do this weekend, so I might have time for this. Also, I made a bit of money this week liquidating some of my possessions, and someone wants to pay me a high value for some of my prototypes...work is going extremely slow, but it should pick up very soon. In any event, I'm going to spend part of tonight continuing work on my game engine...I can try to build it on my wife's Windows machine once it's finished here on my BSD box._________________If you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear demonic voices. The scary part is that if you play it forwards it installs Windows. - wallace

I have coded everything from scratch (well with flash at least and a few libraries) and so far I'm very much behind where I would like to be with my engine but it's nothing a few red bulls cant fix :)

I'm a little excited to see what I can come up with tomorrow for my game design... just hope I don't spend too much time planning it :P_________________Check out my game development on My Programming Blog!

I'm a stickler for not using art that doesn't allow me to go commercial, so I can't recommend too many places since most don't allow for such things BUT if you don't care about the license you can always google like "ripped sprites" or something of that nature.

As for music look up "the free sound project". Not sure if its just sounds or music too but they have a large library of free stuff.